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Media playback is unsupported on your deviceAll aboard the (self-driving) bus - next stop, CES: Las Vegas' annual gigantic tech fest.About 4,000 companies - many of them start-ups - are arriving in town this weekend. Over the coming days, they will reveal new products, secure orders and hopefully provide a taste of the future at the trade fair.The event has its roots in consumer gadgets, but now sprawls into fields including artificial intelligence, automobiles, medicine, marketing and even agriculture.Most of the big technology brands in attendance will have something new to brag about. But increasingly, they hold flagship products back for stand-alone events. In recent years much of the excitement has instead been delivered by smaller, lesser-known companies for whom CES presents a "brea...

One of the most overwhelming parts of embarking on a Whole 30 is the seemingly Herculean task of stocking up on program compliant products that don’t sneakily contain any of the (many) off-limits ingredients you’ll be avoiding for a month.While you could easily lose hours roaming up and down grocery aisles, scanning ingredient lists and labels with great focus, we’ve made your life infinitely easier by rounding up some awesome Whole 30 approved items from one of your favorite grocery chains.Perhaps no grocery store has built such a dedicated cult following as Trader Joe’s, known and beloved for their affordable signature products and eye-catching designs. These excellent and affordable TJ’s signature products will make your Whole 30 shopping a breeze—just keep an eye out for the Trader Joe

Aug. 21 (UPI) -- New research suggests that consumers use reviews and ratings by other consumers to drive their purchasing decision-making.The study, published today in Psychological Science, found that people favor products that have more reviews, even if they have lower ratings than an alternative product."It's extremely common for websites and apps to display the average score of a product along with the number of reviews. Our research suggests that, in some cases, people might take this information and make systematically bad decisions with it," Derek Powell, a researcher at Stanford University, said in a press release."We found that people were biased toward choosing to purchase more popular products and that this sometimes led them to make very poor decisions."Researchers studied act...

The Bank of England has decided to carry on using chemicals derived from animal products to make its new plastic banknotes despite an outcry.An extensive consultation saw the vast majority of those who responded say they were against the use of the additives.But the Bank said the alternative of using palm oil raised environmental concerns and would cost the Treasury an extra £16.5m over the next ten years.The Government told the Bank it did not believe a switch would be achieve value for money for taxpayers.Campaigners launched a petition last autumn after it emerged that the new plastic £5 note contained traces of an animal product derivative.The Bank launched a review following the outcry and earlier this year decided not to scrap the notes, though it said it would hold a public consulta

The UK should focus on using waste products like chip fat if it wants to double production of biofuels according a new study.The report from the says that making fuel from crops like wheat should be restricted.Incentives should be given to farmers to increase production of fuel crops like Miscanthus on marginal land. Even with electric vehicles, biofuels will still be needed for aviation and heavy goods say the authors. While the European Union has mandated that 10% of transport fuels should come from sustainable sources by 2020, these biofuels have been a slow burner in the UK. Suppliers are already blending up to 4.75% of diesel and petrol with greener fuel, but doubling this amount will take up to 10 years say the authors of this new report, that was commissioned by the government. To ...